The discussion around the Goods and Services Tax (GST) started much before the actual rollout on midnight of 30 June. Several media reports and public reactions say that there is still a lot of confusion regarding this major tax reform. Amid all the confusion and queries, a number of people took to social media, especially Twitter.
Twitter saw over one million GST-related Tweets between 30 June and 2 July, Twitter India said.
The report said that the conversations on GST and related topics peaked 30 minutes after the rollout at 12:30 am with 1.1k tweets per minute.
The discussion ranged from jokes and memes to serious analyses. The most trending hashtags around the topic showed all sides of the conversation – #GSTCouncil, #GSTIndia, #GST@GoI, #GSTRate, GST, #GST, #GSTsimplified, #IndiaforGST, askGST, #GSTForCommonMan, #HalfCookedGST, #HalfBakedGST.
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) – India’s biggest tax reform since independence — came into force after 17 tumultuous years of debate, unifying more than a dozen central and state levies.
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